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Join Us at IMS 2025 Join Us at IMS 2025

Moscone Convention Center
San Francisco, CA
June 15 - 20
Booth 1243

Bridging RF Signal Chains and Systems at the Intelligent Edge

Join us in-person at the IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS) 2025 where we will be showcasing the industry's most complete, high-performance digitization and processing platform.

Experience first-hand how ADI's latest RF, Clocking, Data Converter, and power solutions are working together to enable unprecedented system-level solutions for communications, instrumentation, aerospace, and defense customers.

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Hear from Our Experts – Workshops

Tao Yu

Tao Yu
Director of Machine Learning

Physics Informed Machine Learning based Digital Predistortion of RF Power Amplifiers

Date: Sunday, June 15

Time: 8:00 am – 11:50 am

Location: Room 204

Considering the environmental impact of radio access technologies alongside traditional performance metrics that have driven the evolution of 4G and 5G systems, it’s essential to recognize that wireless infrastructure consumes a significant portion of energy used by communication service providers.

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Mohamed Abdalla
Director, Analog/RF Design Engineering

Bringing Commercial Cellular Access to Space

Date: Sunday, June 15

Time: 8:00 am – 5:20 pm

Location: Room 208

This presentation explores the integration of 5G Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN) with terrestrial networks, highlighting the motivation, use cases, and challenges involved. It discusses the 3GPP standard for NTN integration and reviews historical technological advancements in LEO SAT applications, particularly in phased-array front-end receivers and beamformer chipsets. A Ku-band phased array G/T analysis is presented to underscore the significance of technology selection, BFIC architecture, and the reduction of power consumption and noise figure (NF) as key factors for commercializing 5G NTN. The presentation also covers the LEO SAT phased array developments at ADI. Overall, the presentation provides a comprehensive overview of the challenges and technical advancements in integrating 5G NTN with terrestrial networks.

Hear from Our Experts – RF Bootccamp

Bryan Goldstein

Bryan Goldstein
Corporate Vice President

RF Bootcamp | IMS Microwave Week

Tx/Rx Communications System Digital-to-RF Design and Test

Date: Monday, June 16

Time: 8:00 am – 5:20 pm

Location: Room 212-214

This session will cover a multi-channel Tx/Rx RFMW Communications System design and how RFMW and digital domains are merging to allow advanced design and characterization techniques.

Hear from Our Experts – RFIC Technical Panel

John Cowles

John Cowles
Senior Director of Engineering and Technology

Low-Earth-Orbit (LEO) Satellite Broadband: Revolutionizing Communication or Just Adding Space Debris?

Co-Organizers: Travis Forbes (Sandia National Laboratories), Salvatore Finocchiaro (Qorvo)

Date: Monday, June 16

Time: 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

Location: Room 216

Large corporations are investing billions of dollars building thousands of LEO satellites to offer broadband internet services to rural and under-developed areas. In addition, many countries are jumping onto this wagon to secure their own access to the internet as part of a national security policy. On the other hand, the high satellite launch cost, hardware cost, and high monthly subscription fees do not seem to fit the objective of providing broadband access to the general earth population, many of whom are living in poverty. Come join the panel and find out if this is expensive space junk or a revolution in broadband internet access.

Hear from Our Experts – Industry Keynote

John Cowles

John Cowles
Senior Director of Engineering and Technology

A MIMO Perspective of Phased Arrays and its Applications

Date: Wednesday, June 18

Time: 8:00 am pm

Location: Room 203

Phased arrays are most often thought of as a way to electronically focus, steer, direct and receive energy. In this traditional modality, all the antenna elements work cooperatively to illuminate and observe radar targets or to transmit and receive communications signals in a directed way. It turns out that multiple-in multiple-out (MIMO) systems have many degrees of freedom that can be explored to implement a variety of imaging, spatial spectrum analysis and energy steering systems, not to mention other radar and data transmission modalities. Extracting more value from phased arrays requires RF, analog, digital signal processing and high performance compute to be jointly optimized.

Hear from Our Experts - Microapps

Kieran Barrett

Kieran Barrett
Manager, Product Applications

ADF4382 Fast Calibration Feature

Date: Tuesday, June 17

Time: 10:15 am

Location: Microapps Theater, Booth 5423

In many phase-locked loop frequency generation applications, reducing lock time between frequencies is of critical importance. The ADF4382 uses a dual-core, multi-band VCO architecture that enables a wide octave frequency range from 11 GHz to 22 GHz. The default method for frequency selection uses an auto-calibration routine to select the appropriate VCO core and band internally, which typically takes 100μs. This presentation details the innovative FastCal™ feature which uses an on-chip Look-up table approach, allowing users to bypass the autocalibration routine. Thereby reducing time taken to lock from one frequency to another, to effectively just loop filter settling time.

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Emrecan Gidik
Senior Engineer, Product Applications

Synchronizing systems with a high number of ADCs/DACs

Date: Tuesday, June 17

Time: 4:30 pm

Location: Microapps Theater, Booth 5423

Synchronizing systems with a high number of ADCs/DACs is very difficult. New features implemented in an analog PLL and a synchronizer IC can help synchronize such systems. The PLL can introduce delays on both device clock and SYSREF to compensate propagation delays, while the synchronizer measures and compensates the round-trip delays that may happen on one or two wire connections. The seminar presents how such a system may be architected using a tree or a cascade approach and how the synchronization may be achieved.

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Sinan Alemdar
Principal Engineer, Product Applications

Em Plugs for RF ICs; Practical EM Models for Fast and Accurate RF Design

Date: Thursday, June 19

Time: 10:00 am

Location: Microapps Theater, Booth 5423

Designing-in high frequency RF ICs requires special attention to proper chip to substrate transitions, including RF landing patterns, substrate/pad parasitics, and solder/wire-bond profiles:

  • Designers often struggle to replicate the RF IC performance on another substrate or transition then recommended, as traditional s-parameter models fail to capture the critical chip-to-substrate transitions.
  • Analog Devices, introduces a new unencryptedtransition-based EM model approach, “Em-Plugs”, to the industry enabling precise performance predictions across varying substrates and transitions.
  • This approach predicts the s-parameters performance accurately at high frequencies up to 90 GHz while eliminating the need for multiple PCB iterations, resulting faster design cycles.

Preview Our Aerospace and Defense Demos

Apollo MxFE® + Versal: EW at the Edge

Explore a high-performance prototyping platform for next-generation electronic warfare. The Apollo MxFE(R) wideband Direct-RF transceiver plus AMD Versal (TM) adaptive SoC development platform, delivers ultra-low latency digital loopback and real-time FFT spectrum sniffing. Together, they enable rapid development and deployment of EW at the edge with the speed, latency, and agility demanded by modern defense systems.

0.1-20GHz 3UVPX Tuner+Digitizer+Processor

A four-channel transmit, four-channel receive 3UVPX tuner plus digitizer platform all contained within a single 1-inch pitch chassis has been developed leveraging a multichannel high-speed digitizer integrated circuit (IC). The system enables wideband digitization up to 5GSPS data rates per channel covering a frequency tuning range between 0.1-20GHz and is comprised of both a Digitizer Base Card and a Tuner Personality Card. The digital offload options include on-board memory as well as both copper and optical Ethernet interfaces enabled by a FPGA/SoC combination collocated with a multichannel digitizer IC on the Digitizer Base Card. The front-end networks which leverage new multi-function RF Front end IC technology for the Tuner Personality Card is also covered. Additionally, this demo describes plans to enable key digitizer IC hardened digital signal processing (DSP) features often required for many applications, such as low latency loopback, fast-frequency-hopping, on-chip FFT sniffing and dynamic decimation/interpolation reconfiguration.

Narrowband Radio Design Enablement

Explore a variety of hardware platforms that augment and enable capabilities across Analog Devices' Narrowband Transceiver portfolio. A breakout board for the Nevis family of transceivers (ADRV910x) accelerates the development of your embedded application software. A VCO reference design enables best phase noise performance for Nevis-based, high-performance radio applications. The new "Dual Navassa" evaluation system provides a platform for evaluating the RF Multi-Chip Sync (MCS) capabilities of the ADRV900x series Transceivers. And lastly, the new AD9310 evaluation system provides a compact development platform that is ideal for assessing the capabilities of the AD9310 integrated GNSS RF front end.

Apollo MxFE®: Agile Multi-Band Phased Array Radar

Learn more about the Apollo MxFE(R) AD9088 (8T8R) in a multi-band Radar application. Operating across both S-band and X-band, the system highlights high-performance transmit and receive paths, fast frequency hopping, and on-chip digital error correction capabilities. Witness how fast switching of hardened IP showcases Apollo's agility for multi-band, multi-mission phased array radar systems.

Multi-Chip Synchronization of Two 16T/16R Systems

How can you synchronize a plethora of RF sub-system tiles, clocked at 12.8GSPS, that could be meters or even tens of meters away from each other? Learn how to synchronize a large, phased array system by nulling out path delay differences. Witness a multi-chip sync across two x-band 16T/16R systems with different spatial distances from their sync source.

Agility in Action: Frequency Hopping with DPD and AGC

Witness firsthand what ADRV9002 agile transceiver is capable of. The ADRV9002 can operate frequency hopping over its full 30MHz to 6GHz frequency range hopping as fast as 13us, fulfilling Link16 requirements. While hopping it can support PA linearization utilizing internal Digital Pre-Distortion engine. You will see DPD improving ACPR by up to >70DBc while dynamically hopping over a number of channels. ADRV9002 can utilize its receiver gain control block to settle gain very fast ensuring uninterrupted reception of the signal.

High-Speed Converter + GPU Optical Streaming

Extracting data from high-performance, high-data-rate analog signal chains for AI model training and real-time inference has become a key trend, driven by the shift from traditional signal processing to AI-driven flows. Learn how ADI leverages an NVIDIA-based platform to build a complete data extraction framework, built on top of open-source software, open-source FPGA infrastructure, and scalable host-side data management flows. It targets ADI’s Apollo MxFE (AD9084) in a 3UVPX system (ADI ADSY1100) to streamline the development and deployment of AI-capable and intelligent edge systems.

Low SWAP Radio Design with Nevis

With a customer programmable ARM core and suite of hardware accelerators, our latest introduction is the first ADI Narrowband Transceiver to enable advanced digital signal processing at the edge. Learn how you can build a compact, low power, high performance RF front end ideal for narrow band radio applications like LMR, DMR, IoT and more. Its integrated system features simplify radio design, and its advanced architecture is suitable for congested or contested radio environments where interference tolerance is critical. See how you can reduce the size, power and cost of your next radio platform by utilizing a software defined modem. Visit ADRV9104 for more information.

Preview Our Instrumentation Demos

10GSPS digitizer for ToF mass spectroscopy

Experience ADI’s 10GSPS DC-Coupled Digitizer in a realistic simulation of a time-of-flight spectroscopy system. Utilizing the 5GHz analog bandwidth of the AD9213 RF ADC enables direct sampling of time-domain signals with durations of less than 1ns while accurately recording DC baseline voltage levels thanks to a fully DC-coupled signal chain. Built-in DC offset adjustment capability allows for this baseline to be shifted by a user-programmable value, meaning the digitizer solution can handle a wide range of input signal waveforms and DC voltage levels. In addition, the synchronized 40MSPS precision signal path enabled by the AD4080 precision SAR ADC measures the same input signal in parallel, significantly reducing 1/f noise for wideband time-domain applications.

Leveraging GPU Platforms for RF Signal Processing

Traditionally, FPGs and custom ASICs are used to interface with and process data from ADI's high speed signal chains. Experience a new architecture of a software defined approach to processing high speed RF data by leveraging general purpose compute platforms at the edge or cloud.

6G FR3 RFFE for OTA Test Systems

As wireless standards evolve from 5G to 6G, the test and measurement complexity is increasing. Witness ADI’s instrument grade 6G FR3 front end signal chain intended for conductive and OTA test systems to maintain signal fidelity. In this demonstration, a modulated IF signal is upconverted to 7.1 GHz by the FR3 transmitter front end and travels over the air. The FR3 receiver front end down converts the RF signal to a modulated IF signal and its EVM is analyzed on a 3rd party analysis tool. The measured EVM matches high performing T&M requirements.

DPS for PA Characterization

Learn about ADI’s ADMX3001 Device Power Supply as the bias (source) for RF power amplifier-(PA) characterization. Bias conditions (voltage bias, current limit) are swept programmatically while applying various test signals (including level and potentially predistortion) to the input of the PA under test using an analog signal generator and measuring the resulting distortion using a spectrum analyzer. See how the power delivery capabilities (up to 1A per Channel @ 5V) and configuration flexibility of this instrument support both laboratory characterization as well as production test.

Preview Our Power Management Demos

Silent Switcher 3

Experience the importance and impact of noise in various power supplies through audio and visual displays. ADI's Silent Switcher 3 technology offers a switching regulator that can enhance a system’s power efficiency and reduce both output noise and solution size.

Silent, Efficient, and Compact µModule DC/DC Power Regulators

µModule DC/DC power products deliver single and multi-channel power solutions, supporting a diverse range of power levels and input and output voltages in advanced and reliable packages. µModule DC/DC products have a 20-year history of providing enhanced electrical, mechanical, and thermal performance.

ADI’s latest µModule regulators with patented silent switcher technology feature low EMI and low RMS and spot noise, eliminating the need for LC pi-filter or LDO post-filtering downstream of switching converters in noise-sensitive applications. The LTM8060F features integrated package-level EMI shielding, enabling a smaller overall solution by allowing it to be placed near noise-sensitive circuits: the DC/DC’s electric field is completely confined; the radiated magnetic field is greatly attenuated.

Preview Our RF Demos

Cutting Edge PLL/VCO Performance

ADI's new synchronization and time alignment methods make system design easier for military phase array applications, communication's massive MIMO or any instrumentation applications that requires multi-chip synchronization or pico second alignment. Our leading-edge phase noise clocks and LO enables high speed data converter and Mixer application to achieve their systems performance targets. Fast frequency hopping is key in many ADEF and instrumentation applications.

High Dynamic Range, Low NF, 2-18GHz Flexible EW Front-End

Experience ADI's flexible RF front-end solution tailored for multi-band radar and electronic warfare (EW) applications. By leveraging a low-loss RF path selector and highly tunable signal chain components, see how ADI’s latest switches and amplifiers enable adaptable, high-performance system designs. This solution addresses the need for compact, wideband, and reconfigurable architectures in defense, aerospace, and high-frequency communications.

Wideband RF Front-end Reference Design

ADI's Wideband RF Front-end Reference Design addresses many wideband architectural challenges within the Aerospace & Defense and Instrumentation applications. Our complete RF Front-end solution utilizes new frequency conversion IC's that extend operation up to 55GHz, tunable BPFs, gain-ranging SiPs, and wideband synthesizer technology while leveraging the high sample rate of ADI's Apollo MxFE to reduce system complexity, SWaP-C, and Time-to-Market.

Preview Our Communications Demos

RadioVerse® Transceivers: Balanced Power and Performance

ADI’s RadioVerse Transceivers contain advanced architectures for balancing power and BW performance coupled with high channel count and optimal digital capability. Join us in discussing the suitability of these products for ADEF and instrumentation needs with 7.1GHz BW operation, 8 Tx / Rx channels and enhanced DPD / CFR performance solutions.

Energy Efficient Radio

Witness Energy Efficient Radio with our latest Samana O-RU SoC with advanced Energy Saving Features such as Microsleep DTX. This technology continually monitors incoming radio traffic and intelligently shutdowns the power amplifiers and transceiver signal chain components on a per symbol basis. Tested with ETSI traffic models, Radio Unit energy savings of up to 40% have been achieved.

Samana ADI DPD demo on Titan platform

Experience ADI's DPD linearizing a Macro Power Amplifier on a Titan platform that includes Samana - ADI's highly integrated, 16nm 4T4R ORAN Radio SOC. ADI DPD IP is a crucial enabler for ORAN customers and key differentiating feature for ADI transceivers to meet emission specs and improve Power Amplifier efficiency resulting in energy/cost savings.